skysight-inc/HackerNews huggingface dataset:
> Cloud encryption is just HTTPs + encryption at rest

Not just plain-old HTTPs. MTProto 2.0 is a whole encryption algorithm for Cloud chats: https://core.telegram.org/mtproto/AJiEAwIYFoAsBGJBjZwYoQIwFM...
That does look suspicious.
I once wasted several months of schedule and payroll wrestling to improve a DNN model - which resulted in that model getting much much better thanks to tons
of creative and interesting work.

We swapped the learned model for a perfect a oracle and realized the actual problem
was elsewhere in the system and was easily fixed. None of those model enhancements were needed.
They probably did. And leaving the band alone is still the best solution. Do nothing, problem solved. I don't see what the criticism is about.

If the Left pushed to rearrange the band and won, then there would be something to criticize. Now we have to redo signage? Or we're all less safe? For what? To silence a handful of people? To give the automaker lobby a win by saving $5 per a car? I doubt they care so much.

The Left has no reason to do anything other than what they did. Approve it.
> Is GitHub going to start verifying citizenship?

As an American company they must presumably already do this to avoid violating sanctions, and least for anyone giving them money. It’s not a huge stretch to imagine they could also do so for free tier users.
Airlines around the world, and many US-specific online forms, sternly refuse to accept that my surname is Hugh-Jones. So it becomes HughJones which makes me seem like a rogue robot.
> So next the attackers playing the long game will just set out to develop the next great everybody-uses-it open-source library

This already happened.

*cough* React *cough*

Ask yourself, why would rogue AI and famous human impersonator Mark (short for Mark Zero Ai) Zuckerberg make an open-source UI library for everyone to use? /tinfoil

That said, who knows, maybe it already happened.
Yes, I'd keep a uniqueness constraint, because it prevents bugs from inserting the same value more than once. From concurrency issues to broken id generation, I've seen it happen before. So unless there are other considerations, having the database enforce uniqueness is a good thing in my book.
RT is not truth though. When a country is fighting for its very survival against a genocidal foe, I'm not about to start clutching my pearls that they've banned their genocidal foe's propaganda. Seems reasonable to me.
I cannot find it or remember who wrote it, but learning to recognize when things are out to get you (his example was Facebook). Nearly an hour into my first encounter with TikTok, memories of that post made me realize that probably needed to be my last encounter with TikTok.
The sources are given in introduction to the acoup blog post I posted elsewhere in this thread, and to which you responded:

> I relied primary for this on Hsu, Han Agriculture: The Formation of Early Chinese Agrarian Economy (206 B.C. – A.D. 220) (1980) and F. Bray, The Rice Economies: Technology and Development in Asian Societies (1986) which were recommended to me by specialists in the field. The latter is a wealth of technical details on rice cultivation, although it is as focused on the transition to mechanization and modern agriculture as to the conditions of pre-modern rice cultivation.)

Again, I know nothing about rice cultivation except what I read in this blog post, but the source is an historian and he himself is quoting the work of people who have dedicated a good part of their academic career to this topic. They might still be wrong − academia isn't perfect − , but it would need far more than a Youtube video presenting one way to process rice as a rebuttal for their work.
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There's a few theories:

* the legal disputes with AT&T meant that Linux was an earlier Free and Open Source Unix-compatible and gained momentum

* the leadership of the respective BSDs are more conservative or "picky" with their merges, requiring sufficient documentation and cross-architecture support

* the BSDs are 4+ different projects rather than one upstream Linux kernel, making contributions harder

* permissive licenses mean that a company using BSD code does not have to announce or share their changes to customers, making BSD adoption harder to notice (unless you read all of the fine print)
Honestly, from reading this it seems like people blew it _way_ out of proportion. Someone forked the project to make updates because the original maintainer seemed to be not doing much, the original maintainer came back to say that they were correct to ask about maintenance because they didn't expect to do any more work due to health issues and then volunteered to transfer the crate to the person who forked on their own, which the person who forked it accepted.

It's kind of bizarre to me because I don't really understand what mental model could lead to not taking any action earlier than this if the was things turned out is so upsetting. If they were happy to keep using it exactly as is because no updates were needed, why not just pin the dependency to that version exactly (and republish their own fork if they were worried about old versions being "yanked" and not being able to use it for anything new or offline)? If they did expect some form of updates over time, where did they expect them to come from when the existing maintainer felt they were unable to continue given health issues? Any attempt to find some other solution to future ownership would be heavily scrutinized by the exact people who commented on this issue with strong opinions and don't seem to have much empathy for the health issues, which would defeat the entire purpose of trying to take time away from work for their health.

I'm surprised that this needs to be said, expecting people to put in extra work to project you from what happens to their projects when they literally can't keep maintaining them due to health issues will never work, and it's also just an awful way to treat people. If you have serious concerns about how situations like this could be exploited by malicious actors, you should be paying much closer attention to the status of your dependencies and taking actions to insulate yourself from potential fallout long before some like this happens. If you've gotten to this point under the assumption that you can just veto any change in ownership that you don't trust, you're already too late.
FreeBSD's Wayland technically works but you can't start a KDE session on it. So it's not all that useful.

Not sure about other desktop environments as I don't use them.
remember how NASA had quarantines and all that wasteful and unnecessary things which Elon musk would never waste time or money on?

maybe war of the worlds was a warning about private space exploration more than anything else. imagine being invaded by aliens with good protocols.
> A business cannot read a book

Assume the human read the book as part of their job. Is that using copyrighted material for commercial purposes?

If that doesn't count then I'm not sure why you brought up "commercial purposes" at all.

> This rules with harsh penalties for consumers/small companies but not for bigtech double standard is bullshit, though.

Consumers and small companies get away with small copyright violations all the time. And still bigger than having your image be one of millions in a training set.
So far thats all it is. But the idea was that they want people to train their "generic app understand and operate" ai, which means they need powers above standard android (super insecure, but they really can not do it as standard android app)
I dont think the EU is at war
Free IPA! I'm in
Installing power capacity is not O(1) complexity.

A battery UPS under my desk doesn’t really affect my rent or mortgage. Buildings not only need to get built they also need to be maintained.
It sill amazes me how peope think 10% discount is such a wonderful deal, it is not. Sure, it is something, but it's not huge.

Same thing as when you get 3 for the price of 2, which is also not a huge deal despite what you might think.
I cannot understand your key points that this is a) not genicide, b) it is simply what the US was doing all these years c) Israel kills acts with self constraint not imposed by others

Israel is actively doing most of the points above against an effectively unarmed and blockaded group of people. US was fighting against actual armies whichever their quality. Israel claims “hamas” and kills indiscriminately, there is no footage of “hamas” army with any heavy military equipment, israel actively causes famine, destroys all hospitals, creates mass graves that have victims with hands tied behind their backs. Israel official claim their desire to kill everyone.

They simply cannot do it immediately because they are doing it with western financial and military support which would evaporate because you can only do propaganda so much.

https://news.un.org/en/story/2024/04/1148876
I've bookmarked a few articles that I usually read one each week. This is updated and am planning to squeeze to the best single digit number of articles that I want to re-read often. So, like the top/best 9 articles that I want to re-read.

https://notes.oinam.com/awesome/articles
This applies to Finland and Sweden too, perhaps others to follow.
Have you had a look at the graph of GDP per capita in eg Bangladesh recently?

PR China has also seen enormous advances in prosperity, and hasn't been in a major war in 70 years, either. In India obesity is a bigger problem than starvation. And approximately everyone can afford a smartphone, too.

South East Asia is doing fairly well, too, compared to historical averages. Even Sub Saharan Africa is finally starting to catch up.

Yes, there are still wars, alas. But by and large people are richer and living more peaceful lives.

We could look at statistics, if you wish. (I was looking for a graph of casualties of war over time for my previous comment, but couldn't find one that was recent enough, sorry.)

The founding Prime Minister of my own adopted home of Singapore wrote a book called 'From Third World to First'. And he's right.
Habits of Highly Effective Pirates?
Cars are already incorporating features to ensure survival of people inside them in case of hitting a bollard - not explicitly for bollards, but because big trees are the more extreme version of bollards that give even less care to cars.

Meanwhile there's often absolute zero empathy to people who are not going to have enhancements available to survive getting hit by a car.
> Simplicity is an advantage but complexity sells better

Exactly my feeling with TypeScript
The daily grind is specifically of a negative connotation. A fulfilling occupation is the counterpoint to that.
bollocks! Next you're going to claim birds are real, and we aren't trapped in Demiurge's Dungeon.
I don't think it's implied that she's making the claim that this group is going to be perfectly representative of their target demographic. She's simply saying that there is heterogeneity in a group that is ostensibly homogenous through a DEI lens.

Gender roles are just as pronounced in the East; me being in China as I write this. Maybe this says a little bit more about our biology and a little bit less about structural bias.
It seems hardly fair to denounce one side of the scale as unbalanced as people lean on its other side.

The fact is that on this topic the propaganda with all its disinformation and misinformation is persistent, pervasive in media, and potent. You can start to see it for yourself — simply take a shallow dive into the history of this subject and you will immediately notice the degree of the active distortion of all discourses on this topic in the modern media.

It won’t take you a weekend to read any one of the below books on this topic. After which you will start to notice how the journalists and the op-ed authors leave out highly relevant details regarding the origins of the problems in order to — time and time again - blame the Palestinians for their plight and ultimately frame them as responsible for their suffering.

It’s not the Zionists that steal Palestinian land and demolish/steal existing houses to build new settlements it’s the Palestinians that didn’t accept a supposedly “fair peace deal” while nobody mentions that said deal requires giving up the right of return of millions of refugees displaced in 1948. It’s not the F16 pilot that bombed the residential compound filled with civilians it’s the civilians that voted a decade ago for Hamas. And on and on.

Read a short book and start to see for yourself.

1. The Hundred Years War on Palestine - Khalidi (Palestinian Arab author)

2. The Ethnic Cleansing of Palestine - Pappe (Israeli Jewish author)
also water tend to be scarse nowaday and valuable nowaday.
S'cunt'horpe
"VanWalleghem said there is room to push costs down as the company gains experience from these first few plants. The storage systems have a projected lifespan of about 50 years, which is an important data point when comparing it to battery systems, which have much shorter lives"

So both longevity and working towards reduced costs for future plants. I guess someone thinks the long-term costs will end up below Li-ion, and likely lower environmental impact, at least compared to the battery component.
Bit of a click bait title there.

Sure people love records because they sound good and you can touch them.

From a general perspective sound waves are captured and retransmitted by any music format but fundamentally each medium has a separate experiential dimension which of course can’t be captured by the casual desk journalist.

Tangentially related, this idea of fast and performant digital technology unfortunately does not apply to in-car touchscreens which are slow and personally I hate and consider them dangerous.
Details are in the actual paper, and its linked prominently but it take a few clicks to get there.

https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC10960378/

There's even a video abstract!
If it's an everybody uses it solution it will eventually be reimplemented as a part of the environment, like the browser or the kernel. The lifetime is limited and linking to a library like that wouldn't mesh very well there.
That's the whole appeal to hobbyists, sure. But I'm guessing Espressif wants to be considered for more serious applications as well. Currently, there are good reasons to choose, say, an STM32 over an ESP32 for a commercial product if you don't need RF (or if RF is handled by another part of the product, such as a SoM running Linux). I'm guessing they wanna change that.
Good. Now that you know the real requirements - the ones derived from the real use cases, not the ones you were imagining - go find a library that implements them best.
A video posted by the minister on X shows police officers and inspectors from the ministry entering a hotel room.
A BBC team visited the scene, but was prevented from filming or going into the hotel by police.

https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/world-middle-east-68961753

The Association for Civil Rights in Israel (ACRI) said they had filed a request to the country's Supreme Court to issue an interim order to overturn the ban.

The Foreign Press Association (FPA) urged the Israeli government to reconsider its decision, saying the shut down of Al Jazeera in the country should be "a cause for concern for all supporters of a free press".
The FPA said in a statement that Israel now joins "a dubious club of authoritarian governments to ban the station", and warned that Mr Netanyahu has the authority to target other foreign outlets that he considers to be "acting against the state".
The Committee to Protect Journalists' (CPJ) Program Director Carlos Martinez de la Serna echoed the same concerns, saying: "The Israeli cabinet must allow Al Jazeera and all international media outlets to operate freely in Israel, especially during wartime."
The UN's Human Rights office also called the Israeli government to reverse the ban, posting on X: "A free & independent media is essential to ensuring transparency & accountability. Now, even more so given tight restrictions on reporting from Gaza."

But yes all those terrorist groups like the UN, Foreign Press Association, ACRI, are all irrelevant, all we need is the IDF mouthpiece and Baghdad Bob.
Europeans 'less hard-working' than Americans, says Norway oil fund boss
The original SSC article about Motte-and-Bailey used "strategic equivocation" as an alternate name, not just plain old equivocation. I.e. intentionally equivocating whenever is convenient for some political/social/whatever goal
I don’t get the appeal of Traefik. If you want an easy to use reverse proxy that works well, pick nginx. Want something simple for self-hosting? Take a look as caddy. For Kubernetes, try out Envoy Gateway.
It is not. The difficulty is that, mainly, we don't know lots of the variables there; and at the time the US was in a race to do it. But the moon is just a regular small planet that is much easier to escape its gravity than earth.
That's just Part 4 (and 13 is available there as well). The rest remains hidden, sadly - I assume that there aren't that many people willing to get Aaron Swartz'd.
no, i've already spent the necessary hours of debating to what extent the agpl3 is compatible with cc-by-sa 4, i don't want to invest those hours again in a license that's used by only one project and, if history is any guide, probably contains important mistakes in how it's written and will need to be redrafted after those mistakes are noticed. i don't have a legal department
They have system access and can push anything on your device. In the past you could have an actual developer signature on the play store but Google got rid of it, on iOS there's never been any support at all of this kind of security.

Fdroid supports that but you need a modified rom so that the play store cannot interfere with it in any way. To my knowledge, only GrapheneOS does that.
my point is that Australia, like the others i mentioned, are phasing out sms. and more importantly, already phased out TOTP. Because they want you to use a dumb app which collect data.
The wording might have changed, but the culture is 100% still there and is draining fighting against it.
If you want to play conspiracy theorist, the correct conspiracy is that Mark Zuckerberg is responsible for the TikTok ban bill, given that he was lobbying for it.
Curious to read this when you think of it.
There's much much better transparency mechanisms on the CA system than Apple or Google though. While a CA attack is possible and does happen sometimes, the attacker pretty much burns the CA in the process.

For starters, there's not even automated reports of app signatures on mobile and no transparency authority at all.
Is it censorship to not include every piece of text you can possibly find into your training dataset?

What's the difference between making that choice versus removing it from the model later?
Yeah, for sure. I was mainly thinking about, say, a foreign state actor doing the bribing and not just the usual grift/embezzlement/corruption.
These ruling feels absurd and is an indication the NLRB is going too far. Speech should not be limited in this way.
Thanks, however I might be missing something but these aren't citations.
Not mine! Just sharing what I found. I was looking for an alternative to rogue amoeba’s loopback too
If they generate good quality then I suppose voice acting could have good use of it.
A useful productivity measure?
Same principle in Norway, though it uses HAN instead of P1.
Tons of people had it shitty much more recently who aren’t black.

Means testing already covers all of the “zero wealth, poor jobs, and second rate schools and healthcare”. Being a minority has jack shit to do with that.

Any of the disadvantages the minorities have should be tested for directly and those should be targeted. That way all disadvantaged populations benefit and we’re not giving unfair advantages to the minority who grew up wealthy.
It's a bit ironic how we are constantly reminded that china isn't a democracy because they have censorship, while we are free and democratic and don't have censorship (except we do).

Italy is passing laws to be able to block websites within 30 minutes, without any oversight from any judge. (more details here, link in italian https://stop-piracy-shield.it/)
BloombergNEF reports a cost of $115 per kWh for turnkey energy storage systems (in China) so their comparison is likely to hold up for complete systems in Australia and the US.

https://about.bnef.com/blog/global-energy-storage-market-rec...
if it was abject shite nobody wanted to read or watch, they wouldn't bother to ban it
What does nepotism have to do with that? Did you confuse it with something else?
Typescript has zero dependencies.
is it honestly better than TOTP in terms of security, ease of implementing "correctly*, and convenience?
> Israel started Internet censorship in 2017.[1] Initially it was limited to "terror group websites, online illegal gambling, prostitution services, hard drug sales"

It always starts like that, and it's usually the #1 motivation to sell censorship laws to the population in countries that don't have them already in place. It also has the side effect to create a mind association where censorship is seen as positive. Then, once those laws are passed, it's too late as they will be slowly but progressively applied also against anything that government sees as hostile, including legit political opposition that could change or remove those laws.
"Think of the children/fear terrorists" laws that usually are enacted in "western" countries follow the same pattern where the powers need a stronger and more fear inducing argument than gambling, prostitution or drugs. Israel isn't the 1st and won't be the last democratic country to go down this route.
> You want an intersection that is safe for everyone outside of cars

Why would you not want an intersection that is safe for everyone, period?

> If drivers aren’t capable of negotiating streets with them, then they shouldn’t be driving, or they should be driving a smaller vehicle.

The size of the vehicle isn't what causes most collisions. Moreover, there are certain roads that have a disproportionate number of collisions. That implies there is something wrong with the road. Roads should be designed for actual reality rather then ideal hypothetical drivers and conditions.

> The idea that we should be building our streets to make driving easier is exactly how we’ve ended up with so many people being killed by cars every year in the US.

That is not how we've ended up there. It was quite the opposite. We made driving a necessity by moving people to the suburbs, without making roads safe enough that everybody could do it, and then demanded it of them regardless.

It isn't the monkey's fault that the only housing he can afford is 30 miles from his job and he has to take a road full of obstructions to get there. The monkey's behavior is predictable, and we know that what happened last year will happen next year unless we do something different. "Damage the monkey's car" is not a solution, it's just the fast track to angry monkeys.